social networks and mobile phones

Four years since its launch, Kik is positioning itself as America’s version of WeChat, the messaging behemoth of China. It believes it has the right product (text messaging, the old-fashioned kind)… Read more »

Work has profoundly changed in recent years, but most people haven’t completely assimilated to what has already happened: We are operating in a new normal, a fundamentally different world of work,… Read more »

Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount… Read more »

The Facebook phone rumors are starting again. This time, the New York Times hears that Facebook is hiring hardware engineers. The story itself is full of contradictions. Facebook may have a… Read more »

A new iPhone application called Highlight hopes to use the data we are sharing about ourselves, our interests and our friends on social networks and combine it with persistent location data… Read more »

Toronto-based Polar Mobile, which provides a digital media distribution platform powering the apps of some of the biggest media companies in the world, including Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated and The Wall… Read more »